Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage
by AtHeartEngineer on Thursday March 14, 2019 @12:13PM
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Signal is in no way tied to the US government though, just because the developers are here doesn't mean anything. And if you are talking about the servers being here, everything is end to end encrypted, even if the government was to try to get useful data off signal servers, there is nothing to get.
Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage
by fernandotakai on Thursday March 14, 2019 @02:04PM
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>Telegram used to be based in Russia.
no, it's not. it was created by a russian (pavel durov) but it's developed by a company registered in london with servers all over the world[0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegram_(software)#Servers
Re:Telegram gets 3M new signups during Facebook apps’ outage
by amedvednikov on Thursday March 14, 2019 @11:35AM
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Telegram is still banned in Russia.
I think it is pretty self-explanatory that in all these countries, governments haven't been exactly subtle when it comes to their efforts to intercept communications. In my mind, Telegram is the only software that resisted such interference in an almost heroic way and ended up having to move out of the country.